Improvement in clothes-wringers



H. E. SMITH. Clothes-Wringer.

No. 204,850. Patented Jun11,1878.

,ILPEYERS, FHOTO-UTNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D, C

UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH ES-WRINGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,850, dated June 11,1878 application filed November 6, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, of Jersey City, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Clothes Wringers, which improvement is fully set forth inthe following specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 represents a sectional end view. Fig. 2 is afront view.

Similar letters indicate corrcspondin g parts.

This invention consists in the combination,-

in a clothes-wringer, of two elastic rollers with two standardsconnected by a traverse, and made of spring-steel, each being bent tofollow a serpentine course and to form a series of bends, and twobearings for the shafts of the elastic rollers, one above and one belowsaid serpentine course, so that by the clasticity of the serpentinecourses of the standards the two elastic rollers are held in closecontact, and also permitted to yield and to adjust themselves to thevarying thickness of the materials passing throughbetween them.

In the drawings, the letterA designates the frame of myclothes-wringer,which is composed of two standards, B B, and a traverse,O. The standards B are made of spring-steel, and each of them is bent tofollow a serpentine course, a, and to form a series of bends, and twobearings, b b, for the shafts of the elastic rollers D D, one of saidbearings being situated above and the other below the serpentine coursea, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The bearings b b are at such adistance apart that in order to introduce the elastic rollers theserpentine courses a have to be forced apart, so that said rollers,after havin g been inserted, are held in close contact with each other,and as the serpentine courses a are elastic the rollers are capable ofadjust ing themselves to the thickness of the material passing throughbetween them.

By this arrangement n0 boxes or extra parts have to be provided to formthe bearings for the elastic rollers D, and at the same time thestandards B B themselves form the springs which retain said rollers inthe proper relation to each other.

The standards B extend beyond the bearin gs for the lower roller, andthey form elastic jaws c, to each of which is secured a secondaryelastic jaw, d. The inner surfaces of these jaws are lined with pads e,of india-rubber, leather, or other suitable material, so that by forcingthe jaws o d over the edge of a wash-tub the wringer is retained firmlyin position.

Springs have heretofore been employed in clothes-wringers, and have beenbent to form seats for receiving and supporting the journals of therollers, above and below aserpentine course or spring-leaf; but in allsuch instances, so far as I am aware, such springs have been made as aseparate article, and afterward connected by bolts with the frame, bywhich they and their supportin g-rollers are attached to a tub, whichconstruction and arrangement is not claimed by me.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a clothes-wrin ger, of two elastic rollers and twostandards connected by a traverse, each of said standards made ofspring-steel, and each having two jaws for connection with a tub orother vessel, one jaw of each of the said standards being extended andbent to form seats for the journals of the upper and lowerwringer-rollers, and a series of serpentine curves that will be betweensaid upper and lower journal-seats, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereto set my hand andseal this 5th day of November, 1877.

HAMILTON E. SMITH. [L. s]

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

